On Sun, 27 Aug 2000, Scott Rainaldo wrote:
> CPU0
> 0: 292030 XT-PIC timer
> 1: 17307 XT-PIC keyboard
> 2: 0 XT-PIC cascade
> 3: 140718 XT-PIC 3c589_cs, serial
> 5: 1 XT-PIC soundblaster
> 8: 1 XT-PIC rtc
> 12: 11074 XT-PIC PS/2 Mouse
> 13: 1 XT-PIC fpu
> 14: 10334 XT-PIC ide0
> NMI: 0
>
Seems like the serial (com2) is sharing the interrupt with your netcard.
You need to edit /etc/pcmcia/config.opts to exclude irq3 by typing
"exclue irq 3" in the file. These cards don't play
too well with interrupt sharing. The reason the name of the driver
is different is because a lot of times manufacturers use
the same or similar chipsets in their cards to avoid design costs.
Similarly, the driver writers will glob a driver for similar chipsets
under a single name.
> It seems that this is not an interrupt problem. Maybe this is an X
> problem, because it usually seems to lock up when I am doing GUI
> things such as scrolling, opening a menu, or switching browser
> windows. In fact it locked for the first time when I was not online.
> I am running XFree86 3.3.6. Do you think that 4.0.1 would fix the
> problem? I have been reluctant to try it up to this point as I heard
> it is buggy. Also, does anyone know why /proc/interrupts reports a
> 3c589_cs when I have a 3CXEM556 modem/lan card? Please forgive my
> ignorance as this is the first laptop I have owned and I am not
> familiar with how PCMCIA works.
>
>
> ---- Begin Included Message ----
> From: Don <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Sun, 27 Aug 2000 15:32:59 -0700
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [expert] laptop hangs while online
>
> I had a problem like that when I first tried running Linux on my LapTop. It
> turned out to be a conflict of IRQ's and memory addresses. Especially with my
> sound card. run "cat /proc/interrupts" to see what IRQ's you are using and also
> try "cat /proc/ioports" to see if you have conflicts with memory addresses.
> Good Luck
>
> Don ....
>
>
>
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> > My Gateway Solo laptop consistently hangs while online. This has happened with
>both Netscape and kfm under KDE. Once the machine hangs it will not respond to any
>key or the mouse and I have to hit the power button. I believe it has to do with
>either the PCMCIA driver, or X. Does anyone have any idea about this? Thanks in
>advance.
> >
> > Scott Rainaldo
> >
> > Here are my laptop specs:
> > Gateway Solo
> > Pentium 133Mhz
> > 56M
> > 3Com 3CXEM556 LAN+modem PCMCIA card
> >
> > Here is my software:
> > Linux Mandrake 7.1
> > Netscape 4.73
> > PCMCIA 3.1.14
> > XFree86 3.3.6
> > kdebase 1.1.2-61mdk
> > kdenetwork 1.1.2-17mdk
> > ppp 2.3.11-7mdk
> >
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Regards,
Ellick Chan
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Aug 27
